EXTRACTS 



From the Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Fruit 

 Growers 1 Society, at its Twenty-first Annual Meet- 

 ing, held at Bethlehem, Pa., January 21 and 22, 

 1880. Judge Stitzel, President, of Reading, Pa., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Thomas W. Harvey, of Chester County, 

 Chairman of the Committee on Orcharding, re- 

 ported with other interesting matter that Mr. John 

 Rutter, of West Chester, had prepared an exhaus- 

 tive paper on the Peach and its diseases, contain- 

 ing an experience of over thirty years in its cul- 

 ture in Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and in the State of Maryland, showing that 

 peaches can be more successfully grown and put 

 into the markets in better condition and to much 

 greater profit from these counties than from Dela- 

 ware and Maryland, and he hoped that it would 

 be asked for by the Society, whereupon Messrs. 

 Harvey, Sattherwaite and Noble were appointed a 

 committee to wait on Mr. Rutter and to invite him 

 to give his experience and views to the Society 

 on peach growing. 



